domingo, 22 de janeiro de 2012

Chinese New Year - The most important thing

People all over the world, from Liberdade (in São Paulo) to Thailand, from the American Chinatowns to Hong Kong, are celebrating the Chinese New Year this weekend. It is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese calendar. 2012 is the year of Dragon and although there are a lot of aspects related to it, people's prayers always ask for success, happiness and mainly for a prosperous new year.But of all the aspects involved here, the most important one is exactly the possibility of such traditional celebration being taking place out of China, in many countries and territories with significant Chinese populations. Chinese who are living out of their country can celebrate it according to their tradition. And people from the place where they are living now not only genuinely respect that but also take part in it. It's the most fantastic aspect because if there is respect..all the other things can be achieved. Without respect, nothing is possible. It reminded me my favorite Chinese proverb "Ifthere is beautyin the soul,there will bebeauty inperson.Ifthere is beautyin the person,There will be harmonyin the house.Ifthere is harmonyin the house,There will beorder in the nation.Ifthere is orderin the nation,There will be peacein the world!"I'd like to wish everybody a very Happy Dragon Year, full of prosperity and respect. The kind of respect that will lead us to peace, at least our own peace. What about you, what would you like for the Dragon Year?

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Professora de Inglês que graças a profissão se tornou uma cidadã do mundo que acredita piamente em duas coisas: lar é onde o coração está e que a educação é a chave para um mundo (bem) melhor!
I'm an English teacher that thanks to this profession became a world citizen who strongly believes in two things: home is where the heart is and that education is the key to a (much) better world!